Industry Moves
Marsh to head ONE Championship’s European rights sales after leaving BT
James Marsh has been recruited by ONE Championship to the newly created position of vice-president of global media rights, Europe after leaving UK pay-TV broadcaster BT Sport
MLB appoints veteran RSN executive Chambers to oversee local media rights
Major League Baseball has appointed veteran sports media executive Billy Chambers to the newly- created position of executive vice president of local media as the league looks to navigate the regional…
Biswas joins Web3 platform Virtualness after leaving Meta
Web3-focused platform Virtualness has hired experienced media executive Joyee Biswas as a founding team member, heading sports and media partnerships for the fledgling Singapore-based company
Arroyo vacates Dorna Sports CCO role
Manel Arroyo has left his role as chief commercial officer of Dorna Sports, the commercial rights-holder of the MotoGP motorcycling championship, and will take up a new position as a strategic advisor…
Fort joins Hutton on Sporttotal’s advisory board
German technology and live streaming company Sporttotal has appointed Brazilian sports marketing expert Ricardo Fort as the latest member of its newly established advisory board
Sporttotal brings in Hutton to aid international development plans
German technology and live streaming company Sporttotal has appointed experienced media executive Peter Hutton as the first member of its newly established advisory board, as it seeks to drive international…
Long-serving Barreto leaves DirecTV Latin America
Guillermo Barreto, associate vice-president of sports content programming at DirecTV Latin America, is leaving the pay-TV broadcaster after 23 years
Telenet’s Kestens recruited to Eleven Sports Belgium acquisitions role
Stefaan Kestens, the senior sports content acquisitions manager at Belgian telco Telenet, has joined Eleven Sports Belgium
FIS M&M recruits Fifa’s Stoll to digital and innovation role
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has added to its team at its new in-house commercial division with the appointment of Fifa’s Benjamin Stoll as director of digital and innovation.
LFP recruits Six Nations’ Morel to lead new commercial entity
Ben Morel, the current chief executive of Six Nations Rugby, has been named chief executive of the new commercial entity at France's Professional Football League (LFP)
OneFootball sheds 11.5 per cent of global workforce
Streaming platform and media company OneFootball has made 62 redundancies following a review of business operations that has dramatically downsized operations in Singapore and downgraded revenue expectations…
Extreme E names Gillett as head of media rights, renews Globo broadcast deal
The Extreme E electric off-road racing series has recruited motor sports and agency executive David Gillett as its head of media rights
Optus Sport recruits Foxtel director of content strategy Rees
Optus has recruited Howard Rees from Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel in the newly created role of head of Optus Sport, the telco’s sports subscription streaming service.
Guarnerio on board at Serie A ahead of international rights sales launch
Anna Guarnerio, the experienced media rights executive who recently left the Infront agency, has taken up a role as head of international media rights at Lega Serie A
LiveMode appoints Aquilino as head of media rights
Felipe Aquilino has been recruited as head of media rights at Brazilian sports marketing agency LiveMode after recently leaving FC Diez Media, SportBusiness understands
IPC commissions Saatchi & Saatchi executive Lisko to lead on global media rights
The International Paralympic Committee has turned to media and marketing communications executive John Lisko to serve as its external managing director of global media rights
LET turns to Barnett to support broadcast strategy review
Golf’s Ladies European Tour has appointed experienced industry executive Murray Barnett as a broadcast consultant as it undertakes a review of commercial, content and technical aspects of its broadcast s…
Former Meta, NBCUniversal exec Radin named BBL chief executive
The British Basketball League (BBL) and British Wheelchair Basketball (BWB) have both appointed new chief executives